Detectives Investigating Prince Andrew To Review File on Virginia Guiffre
Detectives who are investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will request files on Andrew's late accuser Virginia Guiffre from the Metropolitan Police.
They will also speak to Andrew's former royal protection officers who stayed with Andrew at properties owned by the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Thames Valley police branch is currently investigating Andrew on suspicion of misconduct while in public office. He is alleged to have passed on confidential information to Epstein during his time as a UK trade envoy.
Virginia Guiffre, who died in 2025, claimed she was forced into several sexual encounters with Andrew at the age of 17 after being sex trafficked by Epstein.
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In 2021 she sued Andrew for sexual assault and the case was settled out of court, with Andrew paying a £12m ($15) settlement to Guiffre.
Andrew was arrested on his 66th birthday after emails in the Epstein files appeared to show him sending reports to Epstein about his visits to various countries while he was trade envoy and details of investment opportunities.
It was the first time a senior member of the British royal family had been arrested since King Charles I was taken into custody in 1647.
The role of a trade envoy is to promote British business and trade interests abroad.
In November 2025 King Charles officially stripped his brother of both the titles prince and Duke of York.
The Letters Patent read, ""The King has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to declare that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall no longer be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of 'Royal Highness' and the titular dignity of 'Prince'."
Andrew was also evicted from his home of Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate, a 30-room mansion in Windsor Great Park that Andrew had shared with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
Royal Lodge began as a small brick house built in 1662 and was rebuilt in the 1800s. Andrew's mother Queen Elizabeth II spent a lot of time there as a small girl, visiting Windsor frequently with her father King George VI, her mother Queen Elizabeth, and her sister Princess Margaret.
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Her mother passed away at Royal Lodge in 2002 at the age of 101.
Andrew signed a 75-year lease at Royal Lodge and moved in there with his daughters Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice in 2004. Sarah Ferguson moved in as well a few years later.
When it was time for Andrew to take his leave of Royal Lodge he seems to have stolen away in the night.
"Leaving was so humiliating for him that he chose to do it under the cover of darkness," a source told The Times. "He didn't want to have a big emotional goodbye, even though Royal Lodge is a place where he had so many family memories."
Andrew subsequently relocated to Wood Farm on King Charles' Sandringham estate, which was home to Andrew's father Prince Philip for several years until his death in 2021.
He then moved to nearby Marsh Farm.
King Charles is visiting Sandringham this week and stayed at Wood Farm but has no plans to see his brother over the May bank holiday weekend.
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This story was originally published May 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM.